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Coolest actor in recent years

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  • #32
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,478 ✭✭✭wexie


    lufties wrote: »
    I can't take either of them seriously for some reason.

    Have you seen Lawless I thought Tom Hardy was very good in that.

    Also forgot to mention Liev Schreiber


  • #33
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Matt Damon.


  • #34
    Boskowski
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    Coolest over recent years, consistently, I'll have to second Brad Pitt.

    Man of the hour, Kevin Spacey. Absolutely love him in House of Cards. What a presence and yet has that bit of ironic quality, too.

    McConnaughy I don't know. Didn't see Dallas buyers club but in True Detective he does this over stereotype, macho, hard done by chain smoker semi intellectual, very deep kinda guy thing that is just too much for my liking. I don't buy it.


  • #35
    lufties
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    C.K Dexter Haven wrote: »
    Cary Grant.

    Oh wait, how recent is recent?

    It's probably hard to define 'of all time' because each generation differs.


  • #36
    RobbingBandit
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    lufties wrote: »
    Nah, couldn't agree with either. I reckon one of us need to look up the definition of cool :)

    I would perhaps sub Dicaprio for Fassbender, how he hasn't won an oscar yet I just don't know.


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  • #37
    Vito Corleone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    Candie wrote: »
    Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. Can play anything and look cool doing it.

    http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/8900000/Mads-Mikkelsen-mads-mikkelsen-8948614-1680-1050.jpg

    He looks like a rapist.


  • #38
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Bryan Cranston for TV, Michael Fassbender for Movies.

    I like Breaking Bad, but Bryan Cranston cool? The complete opposite.


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
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    Vito Corleone wrote: »
    He looks like a rapist.

    Thanks for the heads-up. I'll bear it in mind.


  • #40
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Tom Hardy.


  • #41
    RobbingBandit
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    Adamantium wrote: »
    If we're talking about all time: Patrick Stewart or Bill Murray

    Currently: Michael Fassbender and Peter Dinklage :)

    How could I forget: Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister. Terrifying.

    Dinklage and Dance are epic in Game of Thrones, Aiden Gillen too.


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  • #42
    melmoth77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58 ✭✭melmoth77


    Ryan Gosling in Drive gets my vote!


  • #43
    KungPao
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    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Have you seen him in Once Upon a Time, the guy is an evil slime ball in both roles, fantastic actor.
    I've never seen him in anything else, but just from BB I can agree with you, amazing presence. His chicken gives KFC a run for its money by all accounts as well!

    Must check that out!


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Benedict Cumberbatch is apparently cool. Don't see it myself, he's a good actor but not a cool one. Too Geography teacher looking for me.


  • #45
    Washington Irving
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    Michael Cera.


  • #46
    lufties
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    melmoth77 wrote: »
    Ryan Gosling in Drive gets my vote!

    I thought his performance in blue valentine was better.


  • #47
    Curly Judge
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    Steve McQueen in the original Thomas Crown Affair.
    More recently Raul Julia.
    Both now dead, sadly.


  • #48
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Ruubot2 wrote: »
    Tom Hardy.

    Some of his best work right here!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMPZ7WeDck


  • #49
    kwestfan08
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    George Clooney still has it tbf.


  • #50
    spank_inferno
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    Idris.

    Cool & charming.


  • #51
    Beefy78
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    The Rock.


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  • #52
    Da Shins Kelly
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    Bill Murray. End of.


  • #53
    lufties
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Candie wrote: »
    I'm a cool shortarse myself, but Renner just doesn't have the looks we obviously do. :)

    born ugly....ultimate fail:o


  • #54
    ZeroThreat
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    Fassbender, but just his mickey, not the man himself :D


  • #55
    Bubbaclaus
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    Benedict Cumberbatch


  • #56
    kingtiger
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    Boskowski wrote: »
    Man of the hour, Kevin Spacey. Absolutely love him in House of Cards. What a presence and yet has that bit of ironic quality, too.


    yes hes top notch in HOC, was just about to post something similar :cool:


  • #57
    Adamantium
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    vKyle Chandler. Coach Taylor. Immensely likeable actor and seems a real man's man

    Understated, yet also steals every scene he is in from everybody including Oscar winners.
    Can also turn it up, fantastic yeller too. In Friday Night Lights, Zero Dark Thirty, Super 8, Argo, Wolf of Wall Street.

    If they were to recast Indy or make an Uncharted movie, he's your guy.


  • #58
    krudler
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    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    David Strathairn. Really hope the massive recognition he deserves will come his way eventually.

    great character actor, he was superb in Good Night And Good Luck, LA Confidential and the Bourne sequels too, he's one of those "that guy from that thing" actors which is a shame as his profile was raised a lot after his oscar nomination. Definitely deserves to be more well known.


  • #59
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    Having recently rewatched Deadwood, Ian McShane's still da man.

    Yep, Lovejoy's cool folks, he just needed to ditch the mullet.


  • #60
    lufties
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    surprised nobody mentioned colin farrell, I guess that says something.


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  • #61
    Neeson
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    ZeroThreat wrote: »
    Fassbender, but just his mickey, not the man himself :D


    How many inches would that be? He'd so some damage to the cervix anyway I'd say.


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